"A common sight in the Indian countryside"
http://www.indianembassy.am/ eng/indian_agriculture.html

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Current News Sites

Set up a Blog Reader (PDF "How-to" document) with RSS Feeds to simplify monitoring multiple current news sources.
There are MANY which offer different tools/features. I've listed only three here but the Wikipedia article, Aggregator will give you some background and other choices (see External Links at the bottom of the article).

Bloglines
Requires a login; web-based, can be accessed from anywhere; allows you to organize your feeds

Google Reader
Uses same login/password as GMail; web-based, can be accessed from anywhere; allows you to organize your feeds

Firefox Live Bookmarks
VERY easy; requires Firefox 2.0 or higher; no organization features for your feeds; like any browser bookmarks this is specific to the computer on which you set it up.

AJR NewsLink - current online newspapers; most won't have a searchable archive of older papers

Country Information Sources

Europa World Online"Presents political and economic information on countries and territories as well as international organizations. Features statistical data and directories."

EIU.com country reportsEconomic and political information about individual countries worldwide - see particularly the sections Country Report & County Profile.

Country Studies, published by the Research Division, Library of Congress.
"...present a description and analysis of the historical setting and the social, economic, political, and national security systems and institutions of countries throughout the world." Updated by the Country Profiles.

FedStatsThe gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. Federal agencies.

WDI Online
World development indicators (WDI) is the World Bank's annual compilation of data about development; provides direct access to more than 550 development indicators, with time series for 208 countries and 18 country groups from 1960 to 2005

United Nations Statistics DivisionDemographic & social, energy, environment, industry, national accounts, and trade data for U.N. member countries. A list of national data sources is provided.

SCOPE Forum - Genetically Modified Food - SCOPE is a partnership between the UW, UC-Berkeley and the AAAS. SCOPE is developing online tools to serve intellectual communities focused on current controversies in science.

Great Events from History II: Ecology & the Environment Series
Natural Sciences Reference G150.G72 1995
Use the index to locate overviews of specific events related to genetic engineering or the green revolution such as, "Supreme Court Grants Patent for a Living Organism," or "First Genetically Engineered Food Reaches Supermarkets". Each 3-4 page entry provides a summary of the event, the impact of the event, and a bibliography.

U.S. Regulatory Agencies Unified Biotechnology Website
"This website focuses on the agricultural products of modern biotechnology. At this time, the searchable database available on this site only covers genetically engineered crop plants intended for food or feed that have completed all recommended or required reviews for food, feed or planting use in the United States."

Lexis-Nexis Congressional
Publications of Congressional committees - hearings include testimony both in favor and against specific legislation from a wide variety of knowledgable advocates.

FedStats
Gateway to statistics from over 100 U.S. federal agencies, including Commerce, Labor, Energy, Transportation, and more.

Books

UW Libraries Catalog
Search for books, videos, documents, and journal subscriptions at all of the UW Libraries at once.

Summit Catalog
A catalog of libraries at universities & colleges in Washington and Oregon.
You'll need the barcode on your Husky card and a Libraries PIN to request items, which are delivered in 3-5 business days.

Magazine & Journal Articles - Multidisciplinary Databases

AgNIC: Agricultural BioTechnology
Access to quality information on the internet including links to portals, indexes or gateways; organizations such as government agencies, international organizations and scientific societies and associations; mailing lists and discussion groups, databases, reports and publications. Created by the National Agriculture Library and the University of Maryland.

Expanded Academic IndexAcademic and popular articles in many disciplines; about 60% of the articles are in full text. Limit to scholarly material by checking the box next to "Refereed publications".

Research Library CompleteAcademic and popular articles in many disciplines; about 60% of the articles are in full text. Limit to scholarly material by checking the box next to "Scholarly journals".

GeoBaseCitations and abstracts for geography, including urban, political and economic geography. Also covers articles on international development and environmental studies.

PAISArticles, selected books, and selected US/UN documents in the fields of public policy, political science, and international relations.

Philosopher's Index
Scholarly research in all areas of philosophy - of use to those researching the ethical concerns surrounding GM.

Proquest Medical Library
Combines MEDLINE indexing with full images for more than 200 key medical titles. Offers coverage of all the major healthcare specialties, including nursing, pediatrics, neurology, pharmacology, cardiology, physical therapy, and others.

HAPI Online (Hispanic American Periodicals Index)
Index to articles in magazines and journals produced in and about Central & South America.

Handbook of Latin American Studies
Edited by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress, the multidisciplinary Handbook alternates annually between the social sciences and the humanities. Each year, more than 130 academics from around the world choose over 5,000 works for inclusion in the Handbook. Continuously published since 1936, the Handbook offers Latin Americanists an essential guide to available resources.

Index Islamicus
A bibliography of books and index of articles in periodicals on Islam and the Muslim world.

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